There are 5 fundamental secrets that real estate investors like to keep close to their chest and they are secrets that enable them to survive and even profit during a bear market.

This article blows lid off secret world of professional real estate investor!

1)Aligning For Profit in a Bear Market

When professional property investors believe market is entering a downward phase i.e., changing from Bull to Bear - they will change their investment strategies accordingly. One method that tough investors apply is to buy up property in best areas that they can afford once a market is slumping already. Professional real estate investors know that best areas for property always boom again very early on in next property cycle.

By working in this way they can then leverage their investment by selling their property early on in boom cycle and buying elsewhere and always remaining one step ahead of less professional investors or average home owners.

Up and coming areas will eventually peak as well of course as they are swept along on tide of boom, but they will not peak first and investors in these areas will have to wait longer to see their profits.

Professional investors will likely enter these areas just before they peak and sell up just before heat goes out of market enabling them to again buy up what they can afford in best areas thus positioning themselves ready for next upward trend. And so it continues!

2)Slow Down Your Speculating

You may already have decided that time is no longer right to be over extending yourself and you may have cut back on your property purchases, but remember that making any home improvement or taking on any renovation projects during a downward period of property market is also considered to be speculating. Don’t just assume that capital appreciation from your property will justify home related expenditure right now…in a bear market it won’t.

Recently i am receiving 3-4 scammy emails every day. They tend to become more and more and looks like soon will be bigger problem than scam mail. Even now, they are worse, because should you believe them, you may loose a lot, really a lot of money and get into all other kind of troubles. There are several different categories of scam mail an we will discuss them in following issues. I will try to help you protect yourself of faling in hands of net-gangsters.

Let us first see newest and growing very fast family of "Security Issues" emails. Here fall fake e-gold emails, "paypal" security warnings, e-bay and different warning emails from "banks".

In 99% of cases those letters state that there is a security problem with your account and it will be terminated if you don't perform a certain action. This could be very frustrating - we all know how picky are payment processors and that they really suspend accounts. So we need to be sure that we don't get scammed, at same time that our accounts won't be suspended or hacked.

How to recognize them and protect?

1. Always look at email headers. They will show you a lot of info. Each email program or web based email has an option "View full headers", "Show email headers etc.". Look at the: Return path, Received: from IP address, Source-Dir if available. For example a fake e-gold warning was sent to me with this:

Return-path: Received: from [70.84.105.244]